“the art of embellishing and decorating parchment paper (or vellum paper) through the use of techniques such as embossing, perforating, stippling, cutting and colouring.”

I used vellum, although there is a risk of perforating the thinner weight of vellum and perhaps parchment would be a better idea. However, I didn’t have parchment, and I was careful and although I did go through the vellum in a couple of places – that is what sequins are for isn’t it? To hide those little mistakes LOL. Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself slightly, I used a piece of vellum and laid it over the black illustrated side of the Cosmos Background cling stamp. With a white pencil, I drew around a few of the flowers to create a small bouquet. Then using the Tool ‘N One and scoring tool from Spellbinders and pressing into my Spellbinders mat on the soft piercing side, I traced over the pencil lines. Pushing the vellum with the scoring tool creates a white line, raised on the back side. The back side is effectively the side that will be on the front of the card. I continued tracing the lines of the flowers with the scoring tool until I had gone around the whole area.

The next step is to create some highlights, and for that I didn’t have the correct tool, but as Dawn suggested in her tutorial, I used the bend of a paper clip and again on the soft side of my Spellbinders mat, rubbed the curve of the paper clip where I wanted highlights and detail. With the base of fine lines and shading in place, the vellum was looking pretty good as it was, however, to get a bit of colour going, I took my Copic markers and added colour to the vellum. When viewed from the correct side, the embossing and shading adds variation to the colouring.

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